Rearview Mirror: Looking Back at the Week on Towleroad

Mystery surf saviour surfaces.
Sex and the City: our interview.
George W. Bush chest bumps a cadet.
Gay slurs fly in Real World: Hollywood fight.
Boy Scouts sue Philadelphia over rent increase.
Dad: Lindsay Lohan lesbian romance is obvious.
GOP strategist peddling Charlie Crist 'sex tape'?
Australian Olympic diver Matt Mitcham: I'm gay.
Riot police stand guard over Romanian pride parade.
POLL: majority of CA voters against gay marriage ban.
Anti-gay attacks continue on rural Tennessee gay man.
Penn Badgley tells you everything he knows about sexy.
VMan/Ford Models male model contest winner announced.
Space shot: Mars photographs Phoenix lander on descent.
THE TUBE: Weezer, Sharon Stone, Bob Barr, Mariah Carey.
Macy's celebrates same-sex marriage, wants your registry.
Lauren Hutton: Sex and the City women based on gay sluts.
First gay parliament member Sunil Pant takes oath in Nepal.
Brooklyn high schools students threatened by bullies with guns.
Bill O'Reilly guest can't think of good reason to oppose gay marriage.
Larry Craig writing tell-all book about arrest, plus Bobble-foot frenzy!
NY Governor orders same-sex marriages from elsewhere recognized.
CA Attorney General urges court to reject same-sex marriage stay petitions.
Scott McClellan book blasts Bush White House, White House goes apoplectic.
Berlin's memorial to gay Holocaust victims unveiled; the interviews, the kiss.
MUSIC: Cyndi Lauper, Hercules And Love Affair, Smashing Pumpkins, Ne-Yo, CSS.
STAGE: The New Century, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Top Girls, Cry-Baby, A Catered Affair.
PLUS: Sydney Pollack, Chace Crawford, Vince Young, Sam Champion, Paul Rudd, Cristiano Ronaldo, YMCA.

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Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced

The winners of the Lambda Literary Awards were announced last night.

I just wanted to send out a congrats to our own Kevin Sessums, who took the award for Mens Memoir/ Biography for Mississippi Sissy. Other winners included Hero by Perry Moore for LGBT Children's/Young Adult, Henri Cole's Blackbird & Wolf for poetry, and Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman for Men's Fiction.

I've posted all the winners, AFTER THE JUMP...

LGBT ANTHOLOGIES

* First Person Queer, Richard Labonte and Lawrence Schimel (Arsenal Pulp Press)

LGBT ARTS & CULTURE

* The View From Here, Matthew Hays (Arsenal Pulp Press)

LGBT CHILDRENS/YOUNG ADULT

* Hero, Perry Moore (Hyperion)

LGBT DRAMA/THEATER

* Return to the Caffe Cino, edited by Steve Susoyev and
George Birimisa (Moving Finger Press)

LGBT EROTICA

* Homosex: 60 Years of Gay Erotica, Simon Sheppard (Running Press)

LGBT NONFICTION

* Gay Artists in Modern American Culture, Michael S. Sherry (University of North Carolina Press)

LGBT POETRY

* Blackbird and Wolf, Henri Cole (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

LGBT SCI-FI/FANTASY/HORROR

* The Dust of Wonderland, Lee Thomas (Alyson Books)

LGBT STUDIES

* Between Women, Sharon Marcus (Princeton University Press)

BISEXUAL

* Split Screen, Brent Hartinger (Harper Collins Children's Books)

TRANSGENDER

* Transparent, Cris Beam (Harcourt)

LESBIAN DEBUT FICTION

* Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking, Aoibheann Sweeney (The Penguin Press)

GAY DEBUT FICTION

* A Push and a Shove, Christopher Kelly (Alyson Books)

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WOMEN'S FICTION

* The IHOP Papers, Ali Liebegott (Carroll & Graf)

WOMEN'S ROMANCE

* Out of Love, K. G. MacGregor (Bella Books)

WOMEN'S MYSTERY

* Wall of Silence, Gabrielle Goldsby (Bold Strokes Books)

WOMEN'S MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY

* And Now We Are Going to Have a Party, Nicola Griffith (Payseur & Schmidt)

MEN's FICTION

* Call Me By Your Name, Andre Aciman (Farrar Straus Giroux)

MEN's ROMANCE

* Changing Tides, Michael Thomas Ford (Kensington)

MEN's MYSTERY

* Murder in the Rue Chartres, Greg Herren (Alyson Books)

MEN'S MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY

* Mississippi Sissy, Kevin Sessums (St. Martin's Press)

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DNC Blasts McCain Iraq Stance with McClellan Tell-All

The DNC has quickly rolled out an ad highlighting McCain's role in the Bush Iraq war propaganda machine as described in Scott McClellan's new book.

Watch it, AFTER THE JUMP...

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News: Harvey Korman, Madison, Clay Aiken, ExxonMobil

University of Wisconsin-Madison to become largest university with a gay leader: "Cornell University Provost Biddy Martin was recommended Wednesday to be the next chancellor at UW-Madison, a top national research university with 40,000 students. Martin, the No. 2 official at Cornell since 2000, is a professor of women's studies and German studies who wrote the 1995 book: 'Femininity Played Straight: The Significance of Being Lesbian.' About eight to 10 openly gay people have become college presidents and chancellors but mostly at small colleges, said Candace Gingrich of the Human Rights Campaign."

R.I.P. Harvey Korman.

DADDY: Clay Aiken impregnates woman through artificial insemination.

Gay activist from Madison, Wisconsin stabbed to death in Mexico: "[Felicia] Melton-Smyth was known for an annual holiday fundraiser that raised money for gifts for people with AIDS. 'She respected and loved all the people within the gay community of Madison,' Finhert said. Finhert said a celebration of her life is being planned and a foundation is being set up for donations to organizations in her honor."

Netflix nabs exclusive rights to LOGO shows. What, no iTunes? Certainly a disappointment for those of us with Apple TV.

Kiss nearly gets lesbian couple tossed out of Safeco Field in Seattle: "Sirbrina Guerrero says she only gave her date a peck, but a mother sitting with her son complained to security and, as a result, they were told to stop or leave. 'And he (the security guard) goes ‘there’s a lady whose son says he saw you guys making out, and I did, too. And you have to stop.’ And I said ‘well, we weren’t making out, but we were kissing and I’m not going to stop,’' said Guerrero…. '(The security guard said) the mom doesn’t want to explain to the kids why two girls are kissing. So I said ‘well, I’m not going to stop, so you’ll have to kick me out. So he said ‘so I suggest you leave then,'’ she said."

A slew of Gossip Girl guy candids.

David Beckham gets a cap in a box.

Rudd government in Australia introduces bill removing discrimination from superannuation laws: "Legislation introduced to Parliament today will extend to same-sex couples and their children the same rights under superannuation enjoyed by married or de-facto couples. 'This bill will take equality for same-sex couples and their children to the next level by introducing long overdue Commonwealth reforms, removing discrimination from superannuation laws as the first step,' Attorney-General Robert McClelland said. 'It will allow reversionary death benefit to be paid to de-facto same-sex partners and their children where they currently have no entitlement.'"

Hot, tranny, or just mess?

L.A. Times editorial: Gay marriage gaining ground. "And why not? Surely the trailing edges of society will soon reflect on the resistance to this phenomenon with chagrin and more than a little embarrassment. It is bracing, after all, to realize how recently much of this nation blanched at interracial marriage, and thrilling to recognize how quickly most of us buried that prejudice, first in law, then in custom."

U.S. News and World Report explores anti-gay hostility in Russia.

Holocaust academic pans gay memorial to Nazi victims: "For many years after the war I had the impression that the Germans understood the immense scope of the crime of the Holocaust which they had committed ... But this time, they made an error. The location was particularly poorly chosen for this monument. If visitors have the impression that there was not a great difference between the suffering of Jews and those of homosexuals, it's a scandal. "A sense of proportion must be maintained."

ExxonMobil shareholders reject resolution to add 'sexual orientation' and 'gender identity' to Exxon’s non-discrimination statement: "Approximately 40% of Exxon’s outstanding shares voted in favor of the clause, but it was not enough to send the issue to the oil company’s board of directors. The shareholder resolution has come up every year since 2000, when it got 8.2% approval among shareholders. The percentage that voted in favor of the resolution has grown every year since then."

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Neil Patrick Harris' 'Straight' Acting Titillates Even Himself

Neil Patrick Harris offered a soundbyte to the Hollywood Reporter reflecting on his coming out and the reactions people have had. He's perhaps one of the best examples that a gay man can play a straight role without any of the oft-predicted career fallout — in fact even he gets off on his love scenes with women.

Says Harris: "There have been very few negative repercussions about my revelations about my personal life, partly because I was on the show already playing Barney, partly because I was very candid with everyone in my work world about my life so it asn't like this big scandalous revelation. It was a nice moment of clarity and exhalation to see that everyone kind of shrugged...there's a lot of people that appreciate that an actor acts," joking, "I made out with Cobie Smulders last week on the show, and when I watched it I got an erection. And she's a chick, you know what I'm saying?"

Watch it, AFTER THE JUMP...

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Jeff Gannon Discusses McClellan Book, Potential GOP Smears

Michelangelo Signorile talked to fake news reporter/escort Jeff Gannon on his radio show yesterday about the GOP smear machine coming after Scott McClellan over his tell-all memoir and the possibility of attacking McClellan on gay rumors that have surfaced in the past.

Gannon said yesterday that he "knew Scott [McClellan]better than any other White House correspondent or Washington reporter." He didn't elaborate to Signorile on the context of that relationship, but suggested that attacks were coming and are fair play.

Writes Signorile: "I found this odd, considering that Gannon has been outraged in the past at even the speculation about his own past, calling it horrible prying, and McClellan did get married in 2003, and Gannon, as reported back during his debacle, had sent McClellan a wedding card! You'd think he'd adamantly deny it -- as someone who claims to know McClellan -- and vehemently attack the speculation."

Listen to it here.

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